Appeal No. 2000-0768
Application No. 08/607,458
Hooper depicts, in Figures 13(a) and 13(b), a professionally-produced video
production named "Moss Landing." As described on pages 36 and 37 of the reference,
an end user could select video segments which were linked to text cues on the computer
screen (Fig. 13(b)), or a "linked database of video materials for viewer exploration."
Hooper does not disclose the details of the "Moss Landing" system, and clearly does not
disclose all the details of a "position coordinate selecting unit" as required by instant claim
1. We can only make inferences with respect to the underlying structure of the system from
the description of the interface presented to the end user.
We therefore fail to see how the reference might disclose a "position coordinate
selecting unit" as required by claim 1. We agree with appellant (Reply Brief at 2) that the
Hooper section shows selection of one of the multimedia materials, but fails to show
selection of position coordinates of one of the candidates -- the candidates being obtained
from figure feature points of the electronic image -- as the presentation position of the
multimedia data.
We also agree with appellant with respect to the more basic observation that
Hooper does not disclose that the end user of the Hooper system may control "positioning"
of the multimedia data that are presented. We acknowledge that Griffin discloses (e.g.,
column 3) extracting figure feature points from an image. However, that the designers of
the Hooper system might have used a system which extracted position coordinates from
image figure feature points of the multimedia images for positioning the images would be
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